Wikipedia:WikiProject Mass surveillance

Welcome to WikiProject Mass surveillance. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of mass surveillance and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Open tasks
More work needs to be done on Consent search, Terry stop, and a page needs to be created for Pretextual stop, which redirects currently. In addition, Traffic stop should outline all the ways the government is using traffic enforcement to fight the war on drugs and terrorism. People who are interested should start posting suggestions on the talk pages in those respective topics. Thanks.


 * Feel free to expand this list!

In the news
Timely items may be candidates for WP:ITN - in any case, deserve coverage.
 * MYSTIC program (RETRO tool) recording and storing every single conversation in an 'unnamed country' for 30 days.
 * Panetta Review - a bizarre instance of Congress actually trying to oversee the CIA (epic fail).
 * Coronavirus app - implementation of mass surveillance platforms to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in a significant number of countries worldwide

Drafts and stubs for improvement

 * No Place to Hide (Greenwald book)
 * Draft:Section 215 of the Patriot Act -- see Section summary of the Patriot Act, Title II
 * Draft:Inspector General of the National Security Administration
 * Draft:California Fourth Amendment Protection Act
 * Draft:Utah Fourth Amendment Protection Act
 * Draft:Tenth Amendment Center
 * Draft:Offnow
 * Draft:Bill of Rights Defense Committee
 * Draft:Courage Foundation
 * Draft:iPhone Location Services
 * Garlic routing
 * Draft: Reset the Net
 * Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse

New articles (or moved from Draft:) and DYKs under discussion
Please feel free to list your new Mass surveillance-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page. Note there is a five day deadline from when the article is created or moved to main article space to when the DYK must be filed. Articles are nominated and discussed at WP:DYKN.


 * Zakharov v. Russia

Actively revised articles

 * Total Information Awareness
 * Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)
 * Aftermath of the global surveillance disclosure
 * Commentary on Edward Snowden's disclosure
 * Stop Watching Us
 * The Day We Fight Back

Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.


 * 1)  I will help clean up articles, I guess. 03:24, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 2)  Looks like you're off to a good start!
 * 3)  I have a special interest in embedded systems. 05:06, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 4)  – if we want this emergent encyclopedia to be as good as it can be, we should all be concerned about mass surveillance by the state reducing the willingness of editors to freely edit.  I'm in!
 * 5)  08:01, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 6)  Yo, count me in. I guess NSA is reading this? Will work on India-related articles.
 * 7) --Balaenoptera musculus (talk) 15:49, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 8)  - Interested. Especially after having read Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide. 02:28, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 9)  I don't have much knowledge on the subject, but I'll help however I can!
 * 10) Ford MF (talk) 21:59, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * 11)  Reviewing, editing and confirming
 * 12)  Tor, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the rule of law
 * 13)  - Interested - Helping out in an area that I read a lot about.
 * 14) Tokelove (talk) 12:57, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 15)  encryption training, cryptoparty
 * 16)  My main interest is the Signals intelligence
 * 17)  My focus is on the United States' Total Information Awareness project, its program components, and its successors.
 * 18)  Primarily NYPD and CIA surveillance, especially within the New York area. Also technology and policy behind surveillance - such as social media monitoring, cellphone tracking, and various bills attempting to restrict or document these tools.
 * 1) --Balaenoptera musculus (talk) 15:49, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 2)  - Interested. Especially after having read Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide. 02:28, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 3)  I don't have much knowledge on the subject, but I'll help however I can!
 * 4) Ford MF (talk) 21:59, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * 5)  Reviewing, editing and confirming
 * 6)  Tor, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the rule of law
 * 7)  - Interested - Helping out in an area that I read a lot about.
 * 8) Tokelove (talk) 12:57, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 9)  encryption training, cryptoparty
 * 10)  My main interest is the Signals intelligence
 * 11)  My focus is on the United States' Total Information Awareness project, its program components, and its successors.
 * 12)  Primarily NYPD and CIA surveillance, especially within the New York area. Also technology and policy behind surveillance - such as social media monitoring, cellphone tracking, and various bills attempting to restrict or document these tools.
 * 1) Tokelove (talk) 12:57, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 2)  encryption training, cryptoparty
 * 3)  My main interest is the Signals intelligence
 * 4)  My focus is on the United States' Total Information Awareness project, its program components, and its successors.
 * 5)  Primarily NYPD and CIA surveillance, especially within the New York area. Also technology and policy behind surveillance - such as social media monitoring, cellphone tracking, and various bills attempting to restrict or document these tools.
 * 1)  Primarily NYPD and CIA surveillance, especially within the New York area. Also technology and policy behind surveillance - such as social media monitoring, cellphone tracking, and various bills attempting to restrict or document these tools.

Portal
See Portal talk:Mass surveillance for a list of interesting topics. Use "open tasks" above for current projects.

Also, feel free to improve the new Mass surveillance portal.

Assessment

 * Assessment

Peer review

 * Peer review

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Resources

 * User:Rybec/Books/WikiProject Mass surveillance

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